Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2015

Abstract

Because of a projected surge of several billion urban inhabitants by mid-century, a rising urgency exists to advance local and strategically deployed measures intended to ameliorate negative consequences on urban climate (e.g., heat stress, poor air quality, energy/water availability). Here we highlight the importance of incorporating scale-dependent built environment induced solutions within the broader umbrella of urban sustainability outcomes, thereby accounting for fundamental physical principles. Contemporary and future design of settlements demands cooperative participation between planners, architects, and relevant stakeholders, with the urban and global climate community, which recognizes the complexity of the physical systems involved and is ideally fit to quantitatively examine the viability of proposed solutions. Such participatory efforts can aid the development of locally sensible approaches by integrating across the socioeconomic and climatic continuum, therefore providing opportunities facilitating comprehensive solutions that maximize benefits and limit unintended consequences.

Keywords

urban, sustainability, adaptation, mitigation, climate

Discipline

Urban Studies and Planning

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Environmental Research Letters

Volume

10

Issue

6

First Page

1

Last Page

6

ISSN

1748-9326

Identifier

10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001

Publisher

IOP Publishing: Open Access Journals / IOP Publishing

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001

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